Business will never embrace regulation. The market yearns to be free and regulation, most of the time, places restrictions on unbridled capitalism. Some rules improve the competitive landscape for nearly all stakeholders, but that is the rare case. One constant problem regarding regulation is the question of who does the regulating. In order to provide [...]
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Energy Risks,
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SEC
One year ago today, there was an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that ignited a fire that killed 11 workers. The inferno blazed for two more days before the giant metal structure succumbed, collapsing to the seabed and triggering the largest environmental disaster in the history of the [...]
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BDO Consulting,
Bob Glasser,
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Faithful readers: the December issue of Risk Management magazine is now online here. Following tradition, we devote the December issue to recapping the Year in Risk. From the Haiti earthquake to flooding in Pakistan to the Greek debt crisis to numerous legal settlements, we cover more than 50 risk management-related issues that occurred in 2010 [...]
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2010 Pakistan Floods,
Chilean mine disaster,
Great Fire of 1906,
Greek debt crisis,
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill,
Haitian Earthquake,
malaria,
Texting While Driving,
Year in Risk
It appears that way. So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now some Berkeley scientists have confirmed that this actually may be happening, but it isn’t magic. A newly discovered [...]
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BP,
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill